Re: Need a a second browser?

On 1/18/2021 2:00 AM, Jeff Barnett wrote:
> Problem: The demise of Flash has caused IE and me a problem. I'm using 
> Windows 7 so IE is sort of ancient. I listened to internet radio using 
> IE and that no longer works. (https://v7player.wostreaming.net/854) I 
> used IE so I could easily use FF without worrying about interactions 
> among tabs, e.g., a bank account in one tab and anything else in 
> another. When I open a radio station in a tab. I need to start a new 
> browser whenever I want to do most anything else. Further, I now must be 
> careful not to shut the radio down by accident. When IE worked, I just 
> used FF for everything else and never worried about it.
> 
> So what I'm looking for is another browser for Windows 7 (not IE or FF) 
> that 1) does not need Flash to play radio stations, 2) is light weight 
> since that is all it's going to do, and 3) does not offend with a lot of 
> crapware as the price for using it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> BTW, running radio in separate FF window fails: every time I try open a 
> URL it becomes a tab in the same browser window as the radio resides.

I'm a little confused about exactly what the issue is, but when you say 
"I could easily use FF without worrying about interactions among tabs" 
it made me wonder if using separate Firefox profiles might help.  IF 
what you're trying to do is keep the radio station stuff in a completely 
separate instance of Firefox (with it's own, private set of tabs), you 
could create a separate profile just for that stuff.  For example, start 
Firefox with this command line:

      firefox --profilemanager

And create a new profile called, say, JustRadio.  Set up your new 
profile the way you want (with whatever settings, bookmarks, and 
extensions you need).

Then, create a new shortcut to start a radio-only instance of Firefox 
with this command line:

      firefox -P JustRadio

If you're running your "normal" (non-radio) Firefox, that has it's own 
set of tabs, and you then start the JustRadio Firefox, it will open in 
it's own window completely separate from the other one.  Hopefully that 
will take care of the interactions among tabs that you mentioned.

I assume you'll want to make just clicking your "regular" Firefox 
shortcut use your regular (non-radio) profile.  To make that be the way 
things work, run < firefox --profilemanager > again (just once more) and 
select your normal profile.  After that, just starting "normal" Firefox 
will open the non-radio profile.

I hope I've understood the issue, and that this will be of help to you. 
  / Rav